Cathcartia

Cathcartia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to China, Nepal, the eastern Himalayas, and northern Myanmar.^[1] Chloroplast DNA evidence supports a split of Cathcartia from the blue poppy genus Meconopsis in an effort to resolve longstanding taxonomic difficulties in the Himalayan poppies.^[2]

Cathcartia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Ranunculales
Family:	Papaveraceae
Subfamily:	Papaveroideae
Tribe:	Papavereae
Genus:	Cathcartia Hook.f.
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Cumminsia King ex Prain

Species

The following species are accepted:^[1]

• Cathcartia chelidoniifolia (Bureau & Franch.) Grey-Wilson
• Cathcartia oliveriana (Franch. ex Prain) Grey-Wilson
• Cathcartia smithiana Hand.-Mazz.
• Cathcartia villosa Hook.f.